Point of care tests, also called near-patient testing or bedside testing, refers to the performance of diagnostic tests at or near the site where the patient is located and helps in obtaining accurate results in a very short period of time. It can be performed by non-laboratory personnel and the main benefit of POCT is to make tests more convenient and immediately to the patient that helps doctors/physician to receive the results quicker, enabling clinicians to support the timely diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of patients. It can be performed by non-laboratory personnel and the results are used for clinical decision making. POCD is usually used in clinics, healthcare departments, hospitals, and patient's homes. In hospitals, they are primarily performed in emergency departments, surgical suites, critical care units, and certain outpatient areas. POC tests can be performed by a wide variety of people can, including laboratory professionals, emergency first responders, radiologists, doctors, nurses, physician assistants, or other healthcare practitioners.

They may even be done by patients, sometimes called "self-tests" or "home tests". POCT has a range of complexity and procedures that vary from manual methodologies to automated analyzers. With the advancements in technology, POC testing analyzers are becoming smaller, faster, and more user-friendly and to achieve accuracy with increasingly smaller samples (body fluids).

The point of care diagnostics global market is expected to grow at single digit CAGR to reach $26,331.1 million by 2023.

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By sample types, POCD market is divided into blood, urine, saliva and others. Based on end-users, POCD market is segmented into hospitals, home healthcare, clinics.

Further, the POCD global market is separated by geographical regions into North America, Europe, Asia-pacific and Rest of the World.